HEUREUX de GRAS MARDI

I want to wish everyone a Happy Mardi Gras. For all you Catholics out there party hard today before you have to start Lent tomorrow. Have a great day.

to Pee...or not to Pee.....

Guys is it me or do you just hate when you are at a urinal and a guy comes up and use the urinal next to you and starts talking to you. I am like dude, I am at my weakest moment and you are talking to me. I hate it, let me pee in peace and talk to me when we get out. Or while he is talking to you he is looking at you, keep your eye on the prize man. The restroom is not social hour I am here for a reason and when that reason is done I am gone. Time for social hour should not be in the restroom. I especially hate it when you are at the urinal and the guy next to you lets one loose. Can you be more embarrassed for him and yourself? I understand the restroom may be the place for that but come on, while you are standing next to someone, NO. Do it when you come into the restroom or when no one is next to you. Not when your poor victim can not escape your stench. Going into the restroom does not throw out all rules of etiquette nor is it a place to chit chat. If you must talk do it while you are washing your hands not staring at a guy peeing. I mean the rest room is not the break room, I understand guys do feel the need to say something to the guys next to them when they walk in the restroom to be polite or whatever. It is not rude to walk in, do your business and walk out; completely fine. With all the different mean of communicating we have now, the restroom is not one of them.

WOW

This is the image the New York Post had in its paper Wednesday. Now if you have been reading the news or listening to any kind of radio stations you know at least two things. One the President is coming out with a huge stimulus package and two a woman had a monkey as a pet that attacked her friend. Now these tow events or so unrelated that it is kind of funny to link them in this way. I do get that the cartoon is making fun of the stimulus bill as to say that is so stupid a monkey wrote it. And goes further as to play on the fact that the police killed the monkey that attacked the person as to say we should do that to the stimulus bill. I complete got the message and did think it was funny. Even though I am boarding the President’s stimulus bill train but still it was funny. Being a Black American I was in no way offend by neither the message nor I think anyone should be. Well maybe the “people” who wrote the stimulus bill and maybe the monkey. The cartoon could be considered borderline, if you want it to be, racist attack on the President. What happen to freedom of speech? The cartoonist obviously did not mean to attack the President in any kind of way and far cry from being a racist attack. The cartoon is clearly making fun of the damn pet monkey and the artist view on the stimulus package. All the people boycotting; REALLY? Is this what hundreds of Black American fought for equality so we can boycott political cartoons that may suggest a hidden meaning? Look at the color of the President and the Attorney General. I think the President can take of himself why not try and help the hundreds of kids who will get pulled into gang related instance this year. Just a thought……

My coffee mug at work

Here is a pic of my coffee mug at work. As you can see it has my home
city on the mug. That is to show people where I am from in the world. I do not even drink coffee. It is just one of those things that everyone who work in an office does. They have coffee mugs. I just jumped on the band wagon and got one also, it is more my mini trash can than anything else. You ever wonder why people follow along with the crowd. Is it sub-conscience or just to belong. Me I did it because I do collect coffee mugs and it gives me an excuse to have something on my desk. No I am lying I did it because everyone has one J

To race or not to race......

Howdy Ya’ll
Did anyone read/hear what Mr. Holder the new AG said his speech to Justice Department employees. Well in shot he said that we (Americans, needed to talk about race and not hid from it. I agree with what Mr. Holden is trying to say. We all have grown up with the sense of tiptoeing around race issues. We are tolerant but silence. To fully accept anything one needs not be ashamed to talk about it. It does not matter if you step on a few toes when talking about race. If we want to fully be an accepting nation we need to fully be prepared to talk honestly to one another about the issue. Most Americans avoid candid discussions of racial issues for fear of not being PC. WTF…PC is way over rated. Now do not get me wrong I am not saying go out and call be spic, nigger or wigger or anything like that; but to openly and honestly talk about race issues. If we're going to ever make progress, we're going to have to have the guts; we have to have the determination, to be honest with each other. It also means we have to be able to accept criticism where that is justified. In his speech Mr. Holder stated that “Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago” which in a sense his true. All I am saying is do not be afraid to ask the big questions or talk about the big issues when it comes to race we need to feel comfortable saying the wrong things.